CLIFTON PARK -- Police are looking for a man who allegedly assaulted a 67-year-old man in his doorway Sunday night.

Police say the Clifton Park resident answered his door at about 5:50 p.m. and was confronted by a white male subject. The stranger asked the 67-year-old to confirm his name and, after the man did, the stranger struck him over the top of the head with a metal pipe.

"(The attacker) already knew his name," State Trooper Mark Cepiel said, adding it was a "safe assumption" that the assailant knew who he was looking for when he struck the man.

Cepiel said the victim said he didn't know his attacker and the man did not steal anything. The victim said he didn't know why he was attacked

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"He just hit him and left," Cepiel said.

The victim's name and street address are not being released by police.

The assailant is described by police as 5 feet 10 inches tall and 165 pounds wearing a gray knit hat and a dark zip-up winter jacket. After allegedly assaulting the resident, the unidentified man left in a white SUV, possibly a mid-2000s Nissan Pathfinder, and headed toward Clifton Park Center Road.

The suspect and his vehicle were caught on a security camera that is part of the victim's home security system.

The victim was treated in St. Mary's Hospital in Troy for a head laceration.

Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact the State Police in Clifton Park at 383-8583.